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Logos Remain Relevant: Source Confusion and Design Patent Infringement

Patently-O

This post will focus on another key issue from the case – the relevance of logos in design patent infringement analysis. Still, ornamental logos found on the accused product can still be relevant as visual distractors in the process of evaluating similarities and differences between the claimed design and accused design.

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Prefiling Offer by Business Partner Dooms Patent

Patently-O

Design Patent No. D450,839 looks like a set of clown feet (image below), but, in actuality it covers “the ornamental design for a handle for introducer sheath” and is used as part of a medical catheter kit. The parties agree that the products described in the letter embody the design that was later patented.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. 23 (2003), false claims about the inventorship or authorship of a product are not actionable under the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. ,

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IP infringement in Metaverse

IIPRD

There are no precedents through which trademark issues could be discussed, but an online platform named Second life appeared in 2003 was a pioneer of metaverse technology and its fast development brought numerous intellectual property issues. This can a lesson for the companies interested in the metaverse. Conclusion and Suggestions.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IN THAILAND

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A patent registration is not mandatory in Thailand, but to have an exclusive right over the invented good or process, it is necessary to file an application for patent and to be granted with a patent. The Patent needs to be renewed after its renewal due date. 2546 2003, where the registration of the GI is a requirement.

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IPSC Panel 9 – Crosscutting IP

43(B)log

Industry pushed very hard against cheap copying, and yet as of 2019 there were only 538 registrations in 20 years versus hundreds of thousands of utility patents. Was more heavily used 1999-2003. Sharp shift to regular regime. found in one key case that boat hulls didn’t infringe if the decks were different.

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